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Dante and Beatrice, from the “Divine Comedy” by Sandro Botticelli

Dante and Beatrice, from the Divine Comedy by Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli’s drawings for Dante’s “Comedy” were probably commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco Medici, the customer of “Spring” and “The Birth of Venus.” This creation of Botticelli remained in the unknown for more than three hundred years, after his death, and surfaced only with the purchase of a collection of a Scottish collector by the museum in Berlin in 1884.

Drawings demonstrating the artist’s brilliant ability to use the line were intended for an unfinished luxury album. Botticelli’s approach to creating illustrations was new for his time: each of them occupies a separate page and is not connected with the text, as it was then accepted. In this picture, Beatrice, the object of Dante’s ideal and unattainable love, leads the poet to wander around Paradise, accompanied by an angelic host.

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